The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An annotated in red biro-scrawled woman in a red blazer signing at a dealer desk, the middle years of the 1960s, boat mounted camera frame, large format plate shot on steel.Work 7796.Christmas 1963, a suddenly shy bell of dull bronze with a worn lip at five in the morning, archaeological find record photograph.Work 7787.Folio plate coloured by hand of a migrant sawmill cutting props to length, 1854, engraving on India paper laid down.Work 7765.A bottle top used as a tiny plate at the prize table under a marquee in the age of the shallow stage, optical sound edge printed narrow.Work 7748.A bathtub with a whale tail above a valley of ruled fields, engraved plate impression on wove paper, archival print on museum board, panoramic negative on 617 stock.Work 7742.Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953.Work 7740.A lemonade bottle label printed twice with the headline shifted down one line, a run of ninety thousand, print with the magenta doing all the work, paper dust speckling a flat tint.Work 7735.A plating of two glasses for one tone on a blue field sown with stars, late 13th century.Work 7724.A column drum half buried in sand, 1864, cutaway of a helmet and breastplate, sepia wash on laid paper.Work 7713.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7707.A bullfrog catching a dragonfly couched in gold thread, the first spring of the 1950s, water surface rendered as a flat plane, lead white heightening over colour.Work 7705.A cat chasing a mouse across a line at the head of a chapter plate, lithograph on heavy plate paper, tinted lithograph with a buff ground, orpiment yellow on parchment.Work 7695.1970s cartoon, wes anderson.Work 7652.Feature matchbook with a shaped top of a silt-veiled cocktail glass with an olive, the post-war export years, aniline pink shifted toward grey.Work 7645.A hygrometer with a human hair movement, the spring the keys were renumbered, wide angle held perfectly square, colour transparency of brass and glass.Work 7634.A luggage label pasted on a trunk beside a painted signal post, endpaper map illustration, enamel on steel with a chipped edge.Work 7612.A straw-coloured outpost with half its windows blocked, after the rock ran out, Japanese matchbox label art, flat opaque ink with a matte surface.Work 7598.A gull-haunted ice cream churned by hand in the Perón years, digital plate finished at 8K, oil on millboard rubbed thin.Work 7581.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7567.A herd of small dark cattle on a green shelf beneath a relief of a coiled serpent, single figure held small against stone, film stock pushed one stop.Work 7559.1970s cartoon, wes anderson.Work 7552.Colour balanced warm and left there of a man in a dinner jacket betting by nodding and a man in a striped tie betting against himself, the small hours, 6x7 colour negative on a tripod.Work 7540.A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance.Work 7534.The bell was lowered on the hour: a flowering stem of a chicory in a summer that was never recorded, haze made visible in straight beams, salt-spotted silver gelatin print.Work 7531.A fuller with teasels and a cloth on a damask scratched with a stick, yellow stain fired to a warm gold, paint fired onto glass in a kiln.Work 7496.A knitted dog with wire in its legs near a sandbag holding a flat, some time close to midnight.Work 7493.A colossal seated figure to the waist in water beside one column struck by late sun, the age of the forty columns.Work 7484.A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes.Work 7482.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7474.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background.Work 7472.